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/ 26 November 2004
All that’s disgusting, sticky and foul-smelling about the human body and how it functions make for an unusual but educational museum visit for children in Paris.
"Crad’expo employs the vocabulary of young children to describe flatulence, faeces and urination for example, "to dare to speak of things that one does not usually speak of", organiser Perrine Wyplosz told reporters.
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/ 26 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange charged to a record high on Friday, fuelled by positive sentiment towards equities. The bourse was ignoring the rand and world markets and seemed to have taken on a life of its own. By noon, the all share index was up 0,94% at 12 514,730 after earlier touching 12 525,180.
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/ 26 November 2004
South Africa’s third quarter 2004 gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to increased to a median forecast of 4,9% on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted annualised basis from 3,9% in the second quarter, according to a survey of economists. The range of forecasts is from 3,8% to 6,2%.
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/ 26 November 2004
An Australian police station was burnt to the ground on Friday as 300 angry Aborigines rioted after the release of autopsy results on a man who died in police custody, police said. The Palm Island riot started after autopsy results showed that a popular young Aborigine, Cameron Doomadgee, had broken ribs and died from a punctured lung in the police station last Friday.
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/ 26 November 2004
The Competition Appeal Court granted Gold Fields a partial interdict on Friday against Harmony’s early settlement offer, until final approval had been received for Harmony’s acquisition of Gold Fields shares by the Competition Tribunal or the court itself.
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/ 26 November 2004
Cheating husbands in China’s flashy commercial hub of Shanghai, beware, female detectives will soon be watching you. China’s first all-female detective agency based in the southwestern city of Chengdu is expanding to Shanghai and is preparing to open as early as December in the nation’s divorce capital.
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/ 26 November 2004
Twenty-six children and 10 adults have been rescued from the roof of the Miller Weedon House in central Johannesburg where a fire broke out on Friday morning.
Emergency services spokesperson Andrew Sampson said the children, mostly toddlers, would be looked after by rescue workers until their parents claimed them.
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/ 26 November 2004
Mark Thatcher’s court appearance to answer questions from Equatorial Guinea prosecutors was postponed on Friday to February 18. His advocate Peter Hodes told a Wynberg magistrate that Thatcher had decided to seek leave to appeal this week’s high court ruling. A full bench of the Cape High Court on Wednesday rejected Thatcher’s bid to overturn the subpoena ordering him to appear for questioning.
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/ 26 November 2004
Zimbabwe is set to emerge with one of lowest standards of living in the world next year, according to the United Kingdom-based Economist Intelligence Unit. In an index released last week known as the Quality of Life Index 2005, Zimbabwe is ranked last among 111 countries surveyed.
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/ 26 November 2004
The government has launched an investigation into exorbitant incentive bonuses awarded to senior executives at the ailing South African Airways (SAA). The probe was prompted by a complaint by the SAA Pilot Association. The union, which represents about 700 SAA pilots, this week confirmed that it had requested the probe, but declined to divulge further details.